Live-Stock Export Charge Regulations (Amendment) 1994 No. 119
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 119
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
LIVE-STOCK EXPORT CHARGE ACT 1977
LIVE-STOCK EXPORT CHARGE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Live-stock Export Charge Act 1977 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters for the purposes of the Act.
Sections 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Act impose a charge on the export of sheep, lambs, buffaloes and goats. Each of these charges consist of two components (except for buffaloes which additionally have a component for financing of bovine disease eradication), which raise funds for the following purposes:
(a) financing of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC); and
(b) financing of the Meat Research Corporation (MRC).
Subsections 13(3) and 13(4) of the Act provide that the AMLC and MRC may not make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the rates of charges unless a motion to endorse a recommendation has been put before the annual general meeting of the appropriate Corporation and has been carried. Additionally, the Act requires the Corporations to provide, in writing, details of the voting on the motion to the Minister.
The purpose of the regulations is to implement recommendations from the AMLC to reduce their component of the charges because of higher than expected collections from the charges since 1 February 1991. The effect of the AMLC charge reductions is to reduce the Corporation's level of reserves, through returning to the industry past over-collections from this period.
The AMLC put a motion before its annual general meeting on 25 November 1993 proposing decreases in the operative rates of the AMLC components of the Live-stock Export Charge and the Live-stock Slaughter Levy from 1 July 1994. This motion was passed and the AMLC has notified the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, in writing, of details of the voting on this motion, as required by the Act.
The MRC has not recommended any change in the operative rates of the MRC components of the Livestock Export Charge nor the Live-stock Slaughter Levy.
The relevant operative rates of charges and the prescribed maximum rates are as follows:
(per head) | Rates from | Rates from | Prescribed |
| 1 July 1993 | 1 July 1994 | maximum rates |
Sheep |
|
|
|
AMLC | 31.2 cents | 26.2 cents |
|
MRC | 12.5 cents | 12.5 cents | 20 cents |
Total | 43.7 cents | 38.7 cents | $1.50 |
Lambs |
|
|
|
AMLC | 31.2 cents | 26.2 cents |
|
MRC | 12.5 cents | 12.5 cents | 20 cents |
Total | 43.7 cents | 38.7 cents | $1.50 |
Buffaloes |
|
|
|
AMLC | $3.10 | $2.60 |
|
MRC | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 |
Subtotal | $5.10 | $4.60 | $18.00 |
Disease Eradication | $0.73 | $0.73 | $5.00 |
Total | $5.83 | $5.33 |
|
Goats |
|
|
|
AMLC | 28.2 cents | 23.7 cents |
|
MRC | 12.5 cents | 12.5 cents | 20 cents |
Total | 40.7 cents | 36.2 cents | $1.00 |